Meh the Dirty isn't that bad.Suddenly Ottumwa and the Dirty Dodge dont sound so bad...
Meh the Dirty isn't that bad.Suddenly Ottumwa and the Dirty Dodge dont sound so bad...
As much as I love Ames, their sure are a lot of Karens and Debbie Downers that live there.Ames residents speaking out against it.
Guest Column: Ames, CYTown and property taxes
Ames resident Stephen Ringlee offers his thoughts on Iowa State University's CYTown development.www.amestrib.com
Ames residents speaking out against it.
Guest Column: Ames, CYTown and property taxes
Ames resident Stephen Ringlee offers his thoughts on Iowa State University's CYTown development.www.amestrib.com
As much as I love Ames, their sure are a lot of Karens and Debbie Downers that live there.
Cant read the article, behind paywall, so I am just going by other similar articles, and the headline.
Was this posted in the correct thread?I lived in a small town in SE Georgia for a couple years. They had a successful lawnmower factory they forced to relocate. Several other job creating projects and industrial expansions they blocked. They waited for the local unemployment rate to skyrocket, then they ramrodded a new nuclear medical waste incineration factory as a job creation project. The entire county had 16,000 people. Blacks lived on one side of town with tin roofs and dirt roads, whites lived on the other side of town with paved roads and brick houses. I couldn't wait to transfer out of there. The factory I worked at was 90% black production workers, 100% white office workers. Black cops arrested whites only, white cops arrested blacks only. They also had moonshiners and the Klan. Lots of underworld drug trafficers also. It was on the Miami-NYC pipeline. One guy wanted to buy my wife.
I googled this guy after reading the article he wrote and found this article about Ringlee and company receiving $112 Million and flopping businesses, and was excited to post it here.....you beat me to it!And then there's this gem:
"Federal officials awarded $112 million to fund new Obamacare health insurance cooperatives in Iowa and Nebraska to a group whose politically connected chief financial officer recorded at least three business flops since 2009.
CoOportunity Health, an Ames, Iowa, group founded by CFO Stephen Ringlee, received the federal funds as a tax-free loan from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Failed Iowa entrepreneur awarded $112 million for Obamacare co-ops - Washington Examiner
Federal officials awarded $112 million to fund new Obamacare health insurance cooperatives in Iowa and Nebraska to a group whose politically connected chief financial officer recorded at least three business flops since 2009. CoOportunity Health, an Ames, Iowa, group founded by CFO Stephen...www.washingtonexaminer.com
There is a very strong NIMBY contingent who, coincidentally, believe that the entire town is their backyard. That said, the current city council has been (for Ames, at least) very pro-growth. I’d be surprised if they let the blue-hairs deter this.My dad always says Ames townfolk were like that when he was in school in the 70's. I'm sure his dad said the same thing in the 40's. Some things never change
We already have one half empty mall, that’s plenty.I was at ISU in the early 2000s and remember the Ames residents all up in arms about a new mall that was successfully quashed. Doesn't sound like much has changed.
I think it is too far along to stop now. I think it is less likely that “blue hairs” are opposed and more likely to be developers and competitors. There are several blocks on the north side of Lincoln Way and south of downtown that have been cleared to develop a hotel, retail complex that has made no progress for years. The first excuse was COVID. The second excuse was input cost and interest rates. I imagine CYtown has killed it.There is a very strong NIMBY contingent who, coincidentally, believe that the entire town is their backyard. That said, the current city council has been (for Ames, at least) very pro-growth. I’d be surprised if they let the blue-hairs deter this.
Main Street businesses coalesced in opposition to that. A lot of the old money in town was very opposed to a new mall deterring people from the overpriced shops on Main Street. I have nothing against them specifically, but they definitely placed their interests above the interests of the community.I was at ISU in the early 2000s and remember the Ames residents all up in arms about a new mall that was successfully quashed. Doesn't sound like much has changed.
We already have one half empty mall, that’s plenty.
My biggest complaint is that No New Mall crowd made such big promises for the existing mall and it’s basically been a ghost town ever since they got their way…We already have one half empty mall, that’s plenty.